This paper predicts 143 new multi-exonic lncRNA loci in C. elegans, along with ~3,000 possible new single-exon lncRNA loci.
Paper of Interest: Comparative study of 81 genomes of parasitic and non-parasitic worms
Check out the paper ‘Comparative genomics of the major parasitic worms’ in Nature Genetics by the International Helminth Genomes Consortium and the ‘News and Views’ article by Paul Sternberg, ‘Opening up a large can of worms‘.
Update on protein-protein interaction data in WormBase
Currently WormBase contains over 28,000 physical protein-protein interactions of which 1,500 protein-protein interactions have been curated by BioGRID as a collaboration with WormBase. Within the data set, over 17,000 protein-protein interactions are unique, and over 6,000 unique genes are involved in these interactions. In WormBase, protein-protein interaction data can be found as a subclass of physical interaction data in the âInteractions widgetâ on the gene report page. The interactions widget provides all types of interaction data related to the gene of interest, such as physical, genetic, regulatory, and predicted interactions. Check out the micropublication ‘2018 Update on Protein-Protein Interaction Data in WormBase‘ by Jae Cho et al., and learn more about this data type in WormBase.
Paper of Interest: OrthoList 2
The new comparative genomic analysis between C. elegans and humans, OrthoList 2 (OL2), was just published early online in GENETICS.  OL2 comes with a new web-based tool that allows for rapid searches of OL2 by worm or human gene identifiers, protein domains (InterPro and SMART), or human-disease associations (OMIM), and also includes updated RNAi resources. The paper describes OL2 and various findings, including how the content of OL2 compares with the original OrthoList tool. The web-based tool for accessing OL2 is here.
Check out the latest chapter on microRNAs in WormBook
Check out the latest chapter in WormBook, GENETICS: Recent Molecular Genetic Explorations of Caenorhabditis elegans MicroRNAs by Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun.